Celine Dion's stage sat in the center of the Forum floor Wednesday night like a boxing ring. She entered the arena, in fact, surrounded by an entourage, not unlike a fighter about to enter the ring. ...more

January 29, 2009

WEEKI WACHEE - The photographer eyed the tail. She looked worried as I held it up to gauge … well, whatever qualities one should look for — in a fin. "That's a small tail," Julie Busch said, glancing without subtlety at the girth of my own, real tail — wider than the average mermaid. ...more

May 11, 2008

The photographer eyed the tail. She looked worried as I held it up to gauge ... well, whatever qualities one should look for - in a fin. ...more

May 11, 2008

Joanne P. McCallie is the women's basketball coach at Duke, which will face the University of South Florida tonight at the Forum, followed by Oklahoma vs. Tennessee. ...more

November 15, 2007

Much of the joy of reading an author like Gabriel Garcia Marquez is allowing yourself to become engrossed in his florid phrasing and vivid descriptions, that he's taking you to a fully realized place, and that you're succumbing, gladly. ...more

November 15, 2007